"The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small."
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"In my own professional work I have touched on a variety of different fields. I've done work in mathematical linguistics, for example, without any professional credentials in mathematics; in this subject I am completely self-taught, and not very well taught."
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"In the sciences particularly the large public universities must and do take an active role in fostering creativity and independence; otherwise the fields will wither, and along with them even the aspirations of wealth and power."
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"I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man, there are many pleasures which he will not know!"
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"There is one thought for the field, another for the house. I would have my thoughts, like wild apples, to be food for walkers, and will not warrant them to be palatable if tasted in the house."
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"Politics is but a narrow field."
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"Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life: and all is seed, and all is fruit."
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"Imagination labors best in distant fields."
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"I didn't want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field."
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"Remember, Orestes: you were part of my herd, you grazed in the fields along with my sheep. Your liberty is nothing but a mange eating away at you, it is nothing but an exile."
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"Across all fields, women are generally paid 21 percent less than men."
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"Everyday I walked on to the field I was the best center."
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"Most pioneers are at the mercy of doubt at the beginning, whether of their worth, of their theories, or of the whole enigmatic field in which they labour."
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"I knew I was going to go into the field and make fun of people to their faces. I knew what I was getting into."
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"The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads."
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"A fallow field is a sin."
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"I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself for a day in the fields."
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"We ask sales managers what they would do if they had an extra hour in their week. They always say they would get out in the field and coach their reps. Yet, they don't."
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"People in both fields operate with beliefs and biases. To the extent you can eliminate both and replace them with data, you gain a clear advantage."
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"There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood."
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